The group leader's name has swept through the news this week after being identified as a member of an anti-government group that, on Saturday, stormed a federal building in Oregon. After hundreds marched through the city of Burns, Oregon, a number of supporters took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in an anti-government protest over land disputes. The Oregonian reported that up to 100 armed supporters were occupying the federal building, though its been contested that the real number of occupiers is closer to a dozen or less.

We are doing the same thing as Rosa Parks did. We are standing up against bad laws which dehumanize us and destroy our freedom.

Drawing a parallel between a civil rights crusader and the armed protest did not sit well with Twitter users.

@Ammon_Bundy you got it twisted you are nothing like Rosa Parks or MLK. Neither used guns or had racist companions! #burnsoregon

@Ammon_Bundy you terrorists are no Rosa Parks and it's an insult to her to compare yourselves to her.

@Ammon_Bundy What kind of gun did Rosa Parks use when she stood up by sitting down?

Nice try. Rosa Parks didn't hijack a bus with an assault rifle because she didn't want to pay the bus fare. @Ammon_Bundy

@Ammon_Bundy Never in my life have I meant this more: You. Have got. To be. SHITTING. Me.

@Ammon_Bundy Rosa Parks did not have a gun. Also, your white privilege is showing.

@Ammon_Bundy You are nothing more than an armed bully who's taking what he wants by force. Un-American. #burnsoregon #OregonUnderAttack

@Ammon_Bundy Rosa Parks was armed with courage. And when she was arrested, she complied with law enforcement. You sir, are NO Rosa Parks.

@Ammon_Bundy You do realize that Rosa Parks was arrested for not complying don't you? She surrendered peacefully.

@Ammon_Bundy Rosa Parks was fighting lynching, murder, segregation, racism, separate but unequal. You have nothing in common with us.

Yet for some Twitter users reacting to the statement, words simply weren't enough to express their outrage.

The dispute concerns ranchers' allegedly unlawful use of state land, including the supposed coverup of illegal deer hunting by setting fire to the pasture where the animals were hunted, in an attempt to conceal the remains.

The state has convicted two ranchers, a father and son named Dwight and Steven Hammond, of arson, according to CNN. The Hammonds say the fire was lit in an attempt to protect from wildfires on their property, and that the government is encroaching on their land rights. Yet according to CNN, Oregon U.S. attorney Billy J. Williams claims the poaching ruling was just.

"The facility has been the tool to do all the tyranny that has been placed upon the Hammonds," Bundy said, according to the Oregonian. "We're planning on staying here for years, absolutely," he added. "This is not a decision we've made at the last minute."

During his address, Obama evoked the Second Amendment more than once: He said, "I believe in the second amendment, that guarantees a right to bear arms," and added, "I believe that we can find ways to reduce gun violence consistent with the second amendment."